[ajross]

> Nowadays all we have is important dudes with pseudo-deep knowledge of git, css, framework-of-the-month and a collection of playbooks, who cannot make a db-enabled hello username message box in less than a day.

Interestingly that is exactly the opposite of my experience. Git is a practical tool with practical appeal to people who want to do practical things. Egghead gedankentheorists hate it, as evidenced by this very subthread.

In point of fact I find the ability to accomplish workaday tasks with git to be a far better predictor of someone's success as a developer than stuff like being able to recite Rust minutiae. People who like git are people who like getting stuff done.

[wruza]

People, whom I knew since these times and who really like getting stuff done and have done it much, all facepalmed when seen things like git, webdev, etc. Getting stuff done is not performing hundreds of technical operations and thinking “good, I’m so skilled”. It’s actually getting it done. I can almost guarantee that it’s a guy with far better predictor skills who will deliver mvp a month later than everyone else. Been through this countless times.